Press Release

Time to Know Announces Research Advisory Board

Mar 24, 2010
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Dallas, TX
Dallas, Texas — March 24, 2010 — This month, 15 leading scholars and researchers in the fields of education and educational technology convened at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education to present and discuss research on a new product category emerging in K-12 education: the digital teaching platform. The workshop was hosted by the Research Advisory Board of Time To Know, developers of an interactive curriculum system designed specifically for today’s one-to-one computing classrooms.

 

The Research Advisory Board plans to publish a book on this research, which will discuss the evolution of the digital teaching platform and its potential to transform teaching, learning and assessment in K-12 education. The digital teaching platform is designed to function as the primary instructional environment in today’s technology-intensive classrooms. The platform operates in a teacher-led classroom as the primary carrier of core curriculum content. It supports the teacher with tools for curriculum planning, classroom management and assessment.
 
“The digital teaching platform is an innovative approach to personalizing student learning in a group classroom setting,” said Chris Dede, Ed.D., the Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education and a member of the Research Advisory Board. “The research community is developing a variety of strategies for achieving this goal. Time To Know’s curriculum is breaking new ground to realize the power of instructional customization.”
 
Time To Know is the first complete example of the digital teaching platform. Introduced in Israel in 2007 and launched this school year in the United States, Time To Know empowers teachers to easily manage instruction, learning and assessment. With Time To Know, the teacher guides the class using an engaging core curriculum program that is integrated with tools for classroom management, planning, assessment and collaboration. In Israel, a two-year Time To Know pilot program with fourth and fifth grade students showed improved teaching quality, better test scores, a deeper understanding of concepts, an improved learning environment with fewer disruptions, and an increase in student confidence, motivation and enjoyment of core subjects.
 
“It’s exciting to work with educators and researchers whose fields of study are blazing new trails in the world of education,” said Ziv Carthy, general manager of Time To Know. “The design of the Time To Know solution is based on research that has been published by top scholars over the past decade. Hence, it is not surprising that these researchers recognize the potential of the digital teaching platform to significantly enhance teaching effectiveness and improve student learning in American schools. For decades schools have invested in educational technology. However, we believe that now is a unique time — a confluence of technology infrastructure affordability, shifts in federal and state regulation, and the introduction of digital teaching platforms, could finally ‘move the needle’ in our schools.” 
  
 
About the Research Advisory Board
The Research Advisory Board advises Time To Know on cutting-edge research and trends in K-12 education and technology. The four founding members of the Research Advisory Board are:
·         Jere Confrey, Ph.D., the Joseph D. Moore Distinguished Professor of Mathematics Education at North Carolina State University and a senior scholar at the William and Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation.
·         Chris Dede, Ed.D., the Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education.
·         Art Graesser, Ph.D., a professor in the department of psychology, adjunct professor in computer science, and co-director of the Institute of Intelligent Systems at the University of Memphis.
·         Marcia Linn, Ph.D., a professor of development and cognition specializing in education in mathematics, science, and technology in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley.
 
About Time To Know
Time To Know is a complete, interactive curriculum system designed specifically for today’s one-to-one computing classrooms. With Time To Know, the teacher guides the class using an engaging curriculum that is integrated with tools for classroom management, planning, assessment and collaboration. By creating a new educational product category, the Digital Teaching Platform, Time To Know is helping school districts improve the quality of teaching and learning, while fully realizing the vision of one-to-onecomputing. For more information, please visit www.timetoknow.com or call 888-559-6560.
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Media contact:
 
Leslie Eicher, APR
Eicher Communications
314-965-1776
 
 
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